LGN : Past, Present, Future And Stats.

Linux Gaming News has turned 1 year yesterday (under the linux-hardcore domain) but now it is coming to an end, at least under the linux-hardcore domain.
Some of you might noticed yesterday that the usual LGN blog on linux-hardcore has been redirected to linuxgamenews.wordpress.org website.
My dear friend Rich who pays for the linux-hardcore domain (and the hosting of LGN under his domain) has decided to shut down linux-hardcore.
His domain served LGN pretty well supplying the blog with more speed and wordpress options – for this I am grateful.

I am not blaming Rich and can understand him very well – but now we must face the present and prepare for the future.
LGN under linux-hardcore will close by the end of the month and we got 2 options :
1. Go back to the original wordpress blog : http://linuxgamingnews.wordpress.com (I’ve already imported all the articles,setup a new theme, but the links are currently messed up).
2. Buy a new domain like : linuxgamingnews.net or .org or .info …. and host the wordpress blog there.
I still don’t know what am I gonna do, but maybe you could drop me suggestions in the comments.

Meanwhile I would like to show you some of LGN stats on linux-hardcore as the new or original blog will have to start from scratch.

First of all here are the 13 months visitors graph, the most popular month had 16,860 visitors due to some websites (which I thank later in this post) linking to LGN articles :

Here you can see those stats in more detail :

Overall LGN had 108,883 views !

The most popular pages like last time where, the Main LGN page, “Upcoming GNU/Linux Games” and “Recently Released”.
The most popular posts where “Heroes Of Newerth Gone Retail !”, “Interview With Frictional Games – Amnesia” and surprisingly “Maxi Mini Golf – Released !”.

Now is the time and place to say THANKS to the websites that linked to http://lgn.linux-hardcore.com and let them know that this link due to be changed by the end of the month (if you won’t find the new link, you could try Ubuntuforums in which I post the new LGN links).

Ubuntuforums.org is still in the lead, linux.org.ru is our “new kid in town” which generously linked to LGN articles.

Most people who can to LGN via search engines, searched for, you guessed it “linux gaming news” .

Search Terms for all days ending 2010-08-16 (Summarized)

All Time

Search

Views

linux gaming news

944

torchlight linux

384

heroes of newerth

360

primal carnage

194

linux games

181

brink linux

179

lgn linux

177

linux gaming

167

linux gamign news

101

gish

99

date warp

95

lgn hardcore

90

deathspank linux

74

linux news

73

venetica linux

66

maxi mini golf

63

linux game news

63

afterfall universe

57

linux gmaing news

47

sci fi room

46

torchlight on linux

44

avaneya

44

galcon fusion review

43

hon free weekend

42

upcoming linux games

41

trauma flash game

41

upcoming linux game postal 3

40

afterfall linux

40

natural selection 2 linux

40

aquaria

39

linux games 2010

36

joe danger

36

linux games hardcore

34

aquaria linux

33

iron sky: operation highjump

32

osmos linux

32

linux gaming 2010

31

hpl1 engine

30

linux hardcore gaming

29

primal carnage linux

29

gnu games

29

eschalon book 2

29

irukandji game

28

hacker evolution linux

27

trauma flash

27

date warp game

26

dark salvation linux

26

ogre games linux

26

venetica guilds

26

torchlight for linux

26

I wonder if the next LGN blog could suppress those stats, if you won’t hear any more info by the end of the month the news will be posted at the original blog : http://linuxgamingnews.wordpress.com
Meanwhile you can write what you think about the issue and what do you think will be the right path for LGN to take

1 comment

whizse
August 16, 2010 3:21 pm

A “real” domain name sounds like a good move. It’s usually easier to memorize, and looks a bit more professional